Karen Maitland

The Book Channel visits Lowdham Book Festival and presenter Tina Bettison talks to author Karen Maitland about her lataest book The Owl Killers.
The Book Channel is broadcast on Sky 166 and Freesat 402 and all programmes can be viewed on the Book Channel website, http://www.thebookchannel.tv (2009/07)

The thirteenth-century is just begun and King John has fallen out with the Pope, leaving babies to lie unbaptized in their cradles and corpses in unconsecrated ground. Across a fear-ravaged England, the people are dying in sin.
In the village of Gastmere, this has shocking consequences for servant girl Elena. Unwittingly drawn into a macabre scheme to absolve dying Lord Gerard of his crimes, death and betrayal haunt her dreams like a curse.
And when Elena is threatened with hanging for a murder she did not commit, it is certain that unnatural conspiracy lies behind these dark deeds. But where can she turn? For in every face lies wickedness and in every shadow lurks treachery . . .
http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/Book (2012/01)

Les Âges sombres .
Avec "La compagnie des menteurs", Karen Maitland a renouvelé le thriller historique. Avec "Les Âges sombres", elle confirme sa maîtrise absolue du genre.http://www.sonatine-editions.fr/Les-Ages-sombres